Executive Assistant to Managing Partner – Professional Services | Sydney

Sydney CBD | Senior Executive Support | Professional Services

There are Executive Assistant roles where you manage a diary.

And then there are roles where you genuinely manage the person behind it.

This is very much the latter.

We are representing a highly successful, privately owned professional services firm looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to support its Managing Partner.

He is commercially astute, entrepreneurial, relationship-driven and operates at pace. His world involves senior clients, partners, confidential matters, competing priorities, travel and a diary that rarely stands still.

He doesn't need someone waiting to be told what to do.

He needs an experienced EA who can stay three steps ahead.

Executive Assistant to Managing Partner

Sydney CBD | Senior Executive Support | Professional Services

There are Executive Assistant roles where you manage a diary.

And then there are roles where you genuinely manage the person behind it.

This is very much the latter.

We are representing a highly successful, privately owned professional services firm looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to support its Managing Partner.

He is commercially astute, entrepreneurial, relationship-driven and operates at pace. His world involves senior clients, partners, confidential matters, competing priorities, travel and a diary that rarely stands still.

He doesn't need someone waiting to be told what to do.

He needs an experienced EA who can stay three steps ahead.

The role

This will be a genuine one-to-one partnership with the Managing Partner,



taking ownership of his day and creating the structure around him that allows him to concentrate on clients, people and the business.

You will:

- Take complete ownership of a complex and constantly changing diary
- Prioritise meetings, commitments and competing demands on his time
- Manage correspondence and ensure key matters don't disappear into an inbox
- Anticipate issues, deadlines and requirements before they become urgent
- Coordinate domestic and international travel
- Prepare correspondence, documents, meeting materials and presentations
- Liaise confidently with senior clients, partners and external advisers
- Manage highly confidential and commercially sensitive information
- Keep track of actions, commitments and follow-ups – including making sure they actually happen
- Act as an intelligent gatekeeper, knowing what needs his attention and what doesn't
- Provide broader support when required without needing every task defined in advance

Most importantly, you'll bring judgement.

You'll know when to interrupt, when to push, when to solve something yourself and when something genuinely needs his attention.

Who we're looking for

This isn't a step-up EA opportunity.

We're looking for someone who has already operated successfully at a senior level and understands the dynamics of supporting a busy,



commercially driven executive.

You’ll probably have supported a Managing Partner, CEO, Partner, Chairman or senior executive previously, ideally within professional services, financial services, investment, legal, family office or a similarly sophisticated environment.

You’ll be:

- Exceptionally organised without being rigid
- Calm when everything changes
- Proactive rather than reactive
- Confident and appropriately assertive
- Highly polished when dealing with senior stakeholders
- Discreet and completely trustworthy
- Comfortable making decisions and using your own judgement
- Naturally good at reading people and situations
- Someone who takes enormous satisfaction from making a busy executive significantly more effective

And you'll need a sense of humour. It will help.

Why this role?

Because for the right EA, this has the potential to become much more than executive support.

You’ll work closely with the person leading a successful and growing professional services firm, with visibility across the business and exposure to an exceptionally interesting client base.

You’ll be trusted with important information, given genuine autonomy and expected to have a voice.

The Managing Partner doesn't need someone hovering in the background.

He needs someone he can rely on completely.

If you're an accomplished Executive Assistant who enjoys working with a fast-moving principal and likes the idea of becoming genuinely indispensable, we'd be very interested in speaking with you.

All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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📌 Executive Assistant to Managing Partner – Professional Services | Sydney (New South Wales)
🏢 Aequalis Consulting
📍 New South Wales